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'''Victor Klemperer''' (1881-1960) was [[Professor]] of [[French]] Literature at [[Dresden]] University. In 1935, after [[Nazis]] introduced their policy of [[gleichschaltung]], he was removed from his university post as [[Jew]], only surviving owing to his marriage to an [[Aryan]].<ref name="LTI">{{cite book
|author= Victor Klemperer
|title= Language of the Third Reich: LTI: Lingua Tertii Imperii
|publisher= A&C Black
|place= London
|year= 2006
|pages=Cover
|isbn= 9780826491305
|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=kwsleqxx_SMC
}}</ref>
He is famous for his book ''LTI: '''Lingua Tertii Imperii''''' (translated into English as ''The Language of the Third Reich'')<ref>{{cite book
|title=Etika
|author=[[Dietrich Bonhoeffer]]
|publisher=Kalich
|place=Praha
|year=2007
|pages=69
|isbn=978-8070-170472
|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=fRidLQAACAAJ&dq
|quote=[Note]5: Nacistická propaganda manipulovala s řečí přímo virtuózně. Srov. k tomu Victor Klemperer, LTI (Lingua Tertii Imperii - "Řeč Třetí Říše").
|language=Czech}}</ref> that was first published in 1957.<ref name="LTI"/> There in, he portrays how artificially devised language of the [[Third Reich]] helped to create its own twisted [[culture]] and stresses out the importance of avoiding such way of thinking: ''It isn't only Nazi actions that have to vanish, but also the Nazi cast of mind, the typical Nazi way of thinking, and its breeding ground: the language of Nazism.''
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